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An Array Beampattern Synthesis Using Adaptive Array Method and Partial Constrained Adaptation  

Lim Jun-Seok (세종대학교 전자공학과)
Choi Nakjin (서울대학교 전기컴퓨터공학부)
Sung Koeng-Mo (서울대학교 전기컴퓨터공학부)
Kim Hyun-Seok (서울대학교 전기컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
In the underwater acoustic systems. we can receive signals and retrieve information about a target by using a beamforming method. The most important thing in the beamforming is finding the way to optimize the mainlobe beamwidth and the sidelobe level to the desired value. One of the prominent results of beamforming method. which has been studied. is Philip's weighting function method(1) . Philip's method adaptively adjusts its weights of array to meet the desired mainlobe beamwidth and sidelobe level. It is very similar to the design method in adaptive filter. However. this method cannot easily bring us to the desired sidelobe level due to complementary relation between mainlobe beamwidth and sidelobe level. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm using partial constrained adaptation. This method makes us circumvent the above problem and meet the specification of design easily. The proposed algorithm presents a Pattern synthesis that designer can easily control the mainlobe beamwidth and the sidelobe level to the desired value while calculation time to converge is decreasing.
Keywords
Beamforming; Linearly constrained minimum variance; Adaptive filter design; Partial constrained adaptation;
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